The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1887-12-02
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NEBxASHA.
In those piping times Of peace the militia
company Of Nebraska City set q good TX
AMPLE by letting their AIMS go to waist last
Tueeday. Gov. Thayer smiled . fstherIy
smcle u tho gallant guards embraced tie
bellies Of the occasicu.
The judicial war in the First dis rlct is nos
bordering On the crimsoned edge OF anarchy.
.Over the graves Of Stull and Humphrey their
vhllom friends swear to climb the CARCASS Of
the ghoul Of Nemahs and pierce his frame
With hoonailed boots. The situation Is loaded
with iron htelcd harmony.
Miss Maria Epson was elected school euper.
intcndent Of Gage county, and celebrated the
event like q horrid man, by inviting her
friends to take euthin'. She turned loose the
bakery she captured, and CONNECTIONS flowed
literally at the feast.
Three years ago q man named BIckmsstcr
attempted to master the contents of Jim Nc
Elroy's saloon at Fremont. 1t was a cold day
and Buck frozs to the job so successfully that
both feet we're amputated. A suit for dam
ages followed, and lsst week he recovered
$1,000.
Hamlin Burnee, an old mar OF Omaha, was
run over by q wagon, resulting in the fracture
of three ribs aud internal. irjlrlts. The dri-
yer of the wagon EGs been arrested for ca. e.
less driving.
In attempting to stop a runawa, team at
Columbus Henry Locke had the wagon
tongue run In his side, resulting in serioss IN
juries.
While in Rushville Wednesday, Bennett
Irwin received q telegram stating that prairie
fires had swept over the entire range tributary
to his ranch on the Niobrara.
Jennie, the 10 year.oll deughtcr Of Thomas
Havcrcroft, Of Omaha. accidentally shot her-
self Saturday with a revolver Sue attempted
to take from q bureau drawer.
Farmers In 90 county are becoming con
eiderably alarmed over tie eplcadc Of hog c.ol
era in that county. Nog raising is carried GU
extensively here and the disease NAV result
disastrously.
Scarlet fever has broken out at Panama.
There is said to be a Wild panther running
about In Mahaska county.
There are 1897 miles OF railroad in tie state
according TO late statistics.
Missouri Valley is now agitating tie ques-
tion Of erecting a packing house.
Work on the new 5000 bridge across the
Cedar at Waterloo Is progressing rapidly.
The trustees Of the Iowa agricultural col
legc at Amos want an appropriation for q
ladies' hall.
A woman with a family Of fifteen CHILDREN
arrived at Council 5 uGs Saturday night from
st. Louis.
Council Bluffs Is working hard to securcthc
next session Of the approaching Republican
convention.
The engine house and blacksmith shop of
the Enterprise Coal company at Abba were
D sVmed by fire Friday.
Wednesday was an unlucky day for the
bridge worknen at Dubuque. Levi johnson,
superintendent OF the construction of :hs
bridge, was seriously Injured by falling head
foremost from thes structure on a rock below,
and Thomas Jennings, second foreman of the
bridge, tripred and fell to the ground, a dis.
lance of thirty-ave feet below, sustaining sc.
we're injuries.
The Iowa State Improved Stock D.c,dins
association Will hold It's regular annual meet.
Ing at Newton, beginning Wednesday, De-
cember .. and closing the following Friuay.
The State short-Horn Cattle, Draft Hsrsea AMI
Ho!stsin Cattle assc cls:icns will slso held
Their annual meeting, beginning at the ssno
time race and continuing two days.
DAKOTA.
Aberdeen has secured the permanent lccs.
ton of the Territorial Farmers alliance, and
q large warehouse will be erected there at sn
carly date.
F. w. Pike, who was formerly In the loan
business at Rcdacid, will I've brought frcm
Michigan on a rcquisi,ion from tie governor
OF Dskota. He is charged with mi szl.us
about $500 from E. v. Lose, Il farmer iivipy
In the northern part Of sphinx county.
George Redfern, an Old citizen Of Yanktcn,
and . boarier at O scald,rav.on hoara:ne
house on Douglas avenue, sSou. the hear,
ot the city, Was robhfd Thursday night Of
$3.50 10 money, asl 300 mortgage ari Sl,5cl
IN botes. Another boarter lost o silve,
watch, and a farmer Stopping at the hous,
SIN grain sacks. Probably 1T angcrs VITO
skipped on some one OF the early mornin
trains.
Thousands of tons OF hay have been de
atrcyed by prairie flr.e In the vicinity CT
Waterto wn.
Minnesota and Dakota arc credited Will
raising 100000 bushels OF whoa: during .Ee
present year.
A disastrous f,e occurred at Piunt. Thu
implement house of Smith Il Dunbar va:
burned. and q two story building owned b,
Mr.. Utter. The loss will perhaps Teach
$500.
A colony Of Toxer City is organizing IL
cmigratc to Cooks Inlet, 600 miles northwes,
Of 4itka, Alaska.
Secretary Gilbert T. Stephenson reports 8